Sr. Analog / Mixed Signal IC Design Engineer - Acacia

at  Cisco Systems

Reading, England, United Kingdom -

Start DateExpiry DateSalaryPosted OnExperienceSkillsTelecommuteSponsor Visa
Immediate19 Jan, 2025Not Specified20 Oct, 20245 year(s) or aboveDesign,Cadence,Transmission Lines,Test Equipment,Inductors,Component Design,VirtuosoNoNo
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Description:

Acacia designs intelligent transceivers using advanced signal processing and photonic integration for the 100G, 400G and 1T bit speed fiber optic transmission market deployed in data center, metro, long-haul and ultra-long haul telecommunication networks.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

  • BSEE degree with 12+ years of experience or equivalent or an MS degree with 8+ years of experience, or equivalent or a PhD with 5+ years of experience, or equivalent
  • Design, simulation and measurement of high speed ICs in at least 3 areas below:
  • High Speed Serial Links utilising serializers, deserializers, and data convertors.
  • Voltage Regulators
  • High Performance Output Drivers
  • High Performance Phase Locked Loops
  • Efficient clock Transmission/propagation
  • Opamps and Programmable Gain Amplifiers
  • Equalisation techniques

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Direct experience with electrical transceiver applications including backplane and cable communications.
  • Experience with FinFET technology.
  • High-frequency layout experience a plus: Passive component design: inductors,
  • transformers, transmission-lines, etc.
  • Floorplanning (power/ground, digital/analog signal routing, etc.)
  • Custom transistor layout

SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE:

  • Experience in the use of high frequency test equipment (BERT, jitter analyzers, VNA/PNA, etc.)
  • Cadence (Virtuoso)
  • Spectre/APS/SpectreX
  • Layout validation tools (Virtuoso or Calibre)
  • Post-layout Extraction (Virtuoso or Calibre)

Responsibilities:

As a member of the Mixed Signal Design team, you will be a key member of a small, dynamic IC Design group that develops high speed (>25Gb/s), and high accuracy, analog designs for optical communications products. You will architect, design, layout, measure and productize ultra-deep sub-micron-based CMOS products.
You will lead efforts for a large block on a complex chip, mentor team members and track deliverables, participate in peer review of complex IC designs and provide solid design methodology from conception to production.
You will also collaborate with packaging and hardware design team to ensure signal and power integrity specifications are met.


REQUIREMENT SUMMARY

Min:5.0Max:12.0 year(s)

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